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- [Mindy] Oh, oh, oh, I let it get twisted
- That's alarming (guitar music)
- Hey guys, I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles
and today, Rylan is joining me! (applause)
Rylan hardly ever does this so
we're excited to have her with us today.
We are going to be doing a fab or fail
and we are going to be fab or failing this little
hair toy/braider called the easy braids hair braider.
Okay, this is what it looks like outside of the box.
Now this little do-hicky is supposed to
be able to braid your hair all pretty-like.
We're gonna give it a whirl and see if it's a fab or a fail.
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Let's get on to the fab or fail.
Okay guys, so once you've got your easy braider,
your product itself, the first thing you do obviously
is take it out of the package.
Now, once it's out of the package,
you have three little hook things like this,
you have the hair braider itself, this all comes together.
You do have to put in three AAA batteries,
which are not included, just so you know.
You get some little hair accessories including beads
and elastics and a little bit of ribbon.
And then this little hair separator.
So, the first thing you have to do
is get a small section of hair according to the directions.
So I'm kind of guessing cuz they don't really clarify what a
small section looks like but so let's just, let's do this.
Just in case I'm taking too big a section.
And then you're supposed to separate the hair using this
into three equal parts by sliding it in like so.
So that's your separator. Then you clip this little
plastic thing over the top and that holds it in place.
So, that works okay. Now, before I keep going,
I just have to tell you that when we went to the store
and we came back and we actually started filming this video,
we got out our hair braider and unfortunately,
we must have bought a dud because this is all it did.
No movement, like if I force it with my hands,
it's kinda sorta work like for a second
but it's obviously not gonna braid
so I actually had to stop filming,
go back to the store and buy another one
that looks like it's going to more
successfully function as a hair braider.
So, at this point, the instruction say to take
our little hooks, these, and put them into the machine
and I mean, just for sake of, I don't think
there's a specific way to do this, but just
because blue on blue and purple on purple makes sense,
we'll do it that way and pink on white apparently.
Now, these are the little hair grabbers,
so you're supposed to take this up like this
and hook the hair into the hair grabber.
Essentially, you're doing kinda like almost
like a crochet hook, it's just gonna kinda grab the hair.
And then pull the end of said crochet hook or hair hook
and it pulls it through the pipe, the little tube.
Definitely glad I didn't take any bigger sections.
You can see that even as it is falling out of the hook,
probably because I have too much in there.
And, I'm gonna pull down and see that one
because I had too much in there, it kinda pulled funny.
I'm actually gonna pull it out, make less hair
and start over on this process because
this is getting a little complicated and messy.
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So this is not gonna work for big giant fluffy braids
like on your whole head of hair,
this is not gonna make two french braids.
This is gonna barely make a little tiny accent braid.
This time I'm gonna hook all three and then pull all three
and see if that works a little better without getting messy,
which it looks like nope, nope nope nope.
Look at that, it's a mess and I haven't even started yet.
Try again, let's do it again (sigh) third time's the charm.
We got this, re-hook, try again.
Okay, I think honestly, that's as good as it's gonna get.
It still isn't like totally perfect at the top,
but it's close. Now, her hair is longer,
so they have these little extender tubes.
If you have short hair, I'm assuming you just
push them back up and you don't need them,
but here comes the real key, right?
Will it braid? Let's find out.
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I'm just sort of ... oh, oh, oh, I should note,
as it twists the hair, you can see that it's
actually braiding the hair at the bottom too,
which is gonna get stuck going through,
so you kinda have to watch this and make sure
that this doesn't inter-twangle while it's happening,
If it's long hair like her's is.
If it's short hair, that wouldn't be an issue.
I'm just gonna kinda braid it braid it, braid it,
till I see the ends popping through.
And then, I am going to elastic it.
It did braid, okay, and you just are supposed to just
release the separator and voila, you have an accent braid.
Actually, it isn't a bad braid,
it actually looks half decent,
so I have two questions, I want to test a couple theories.
Number one is would it work if you don't use the separator?
Because I feel like the separator was kind of a hassle.
And number two, if I go slower, would it make
the braid tighter as opposed to moving down it faster,
making the braid looser ... - That's what I was thinking.
- That's what you were thinking too?
- Yeah - So we're gonna test a couple
different things and see how it works and how it turns out.
So again, we're gonna start with a small piece of hair.
So if I just kinda eyeball three pieces
or even have Rylan hold, Rylan hold these for me
since I'm using another human instead
of the separator, if it would work.
So, third piece, okay, so that definitely did work,
saved me a bunch of time and I think it turned out
a little smoother at the top, not using the separator,
but you definitely need a second person.
If you were doing it on yourself,
the separator would come in handy.
So, we're gonna do it slow and try to make it a tight braid.
Like I'm barely moving, oh, oh, oh, oh, I let it get twisted
at the bottom. - That's alarming.
- It's okay, I just got it twisted
at the bottom, we're all good, have no fear.
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Okay, so, moving a little slower this time,
this was braid number one and this was braid number two.
- Braid number two definitely did it way tighter.
- So, braid number two is definitely tighter.
The only trick to doing it slow is that I was too busy
watching the top to make sure it was going slow
and I forgot to watch the bottom,
and that's when the hair got tangled.
Okay, the goal this time is to just go down as fast as I can
and see if it really does create a looser braid.
So, I did it fast, but I don't like it at all.
It kind of doesn't even look like a braid.
I don't know. - I don't know. (laugh)
- But I don't love that one, so don't do that one.
Okay guys, so in conclusion, first of all,
let's just go over the facts. - Yeah.
- The product is normally around $24,
I found it on sale for $19.99 with no coupon.
So, it's not like crazy expensive,
but it's expensive enough that if it's not gonna work
like the first one, major (trill), major thumbs down.
So, first of all, not 100% sure I would give it
very high ratings for quality of product
because it does feel like plastic and anyway ...
So, what do you think Rylan? - It depends on the way
you braid it, if you braid it slow,
it can tangle your hair really fast for a good braid,
it can tangle your hair if you're not watching the bottom.
And if you braid it fast, then it's just not even a braid.
- I am gonna say it did braid the hair, right?
It didn't just tangle it into a mess,
it actually did create a braid
and the braid actually looks half decent.
However, I thought the hair separator was
a little tricky to use and I still think no matter what
we did, we have flyaway hair at the top.
It doesn't want to lay flat right there.
I mean if you're gonna use it for an actual hair tool,
for sure a thumbs down, like fail, fail, fail, fail.
- I wish it would use more hair, cuz ...
- Yeah, yeah, it's not a very big braid even then,
however, this is sold in the toy section of the stores
and it's actually manufactured by a toy company
so this is not supposed to be like
a professional braiding tool, this is supposed to be a toy.
Honestly, I just don't see people using this for real,
like, to really braid their kid's hair, I just don't see it.
As a toy, maybe a little bit more,
so I'm gonna go, fail as a hair tool, and a ehh as a toy.
I'm gonna let Paisley play with it.
I predict that it's either broken very shortly
or her barbie's hair is a nightmare very shortly.
But she would have fun doing it and if it killed a couple
hours or a couple weeks, which is why I'm giving it a ehh.
I definitely think it should also be noted
that for the amount of time it took us
to just separate and set up the hair,
it would have been a lot easier for me
to have just whipped out a braid.
Definitely if you don't know how to braid,
use one of my beginning hair tutorials and you're golden.
So there you have it folks, the easy braid,
this is the easy braid is the brand
and it's called the hair braider.
So do me a favor guys and leave a comment down below
on whether or not you would buy this product
or if you have bought it, what your thoughts about it were.
Definitely leave me another comment telling me
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Bye guys. - Bye.